rafflesmuseum.wordpress.com Archives - 22 February 2012, Wednesday

They are here at the invitation of the museum to study hermit crab material collected from the PANGLAO 2004 and 2005 expeditions with the aim of producing a series of papers documenting the diversity of hermit crabs collected from these expeditions. Only a few days into their study, t...

With much anticipation, the Semakau intertidal walk for the public has started once again to kick start the new year of 2012! Our very first walk this year took place in the afternoon of 8 January, with 46 participants from the public and 12 trainees a.k.a. soon-to-be RMBR Nature Guid...

Part-time student assistant help wanted for forest work with CTFS 14 January 2012 CDTL’s new e-learning module on Oral Presentation Skills for students 13 January 2012 A Navjot Sodhi module objective: “I just wanna teach them some empathy” 12 January 2012 Maiden lectures today by Ming...

CDTL’s new e-learning module on Oral Presentation Skills for students 13 January 2012 A Navjot Sodhi module objective: “I just wanna teach them some empathy” 12 January 2012 Maiden lectures today by Mingko and Dan in ecology and coastal management! 12 January 2012 Dan the man is in ge...

In the last few decades, there has been a remarkable discovery of new species of plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, in what have been called the new age of discovery. However, owing to anthropogenic impacts such as habitat conversion, many of the still unknown species may go extin...

Indonesia and Norway have entered into a landmark deal that will pay Indonesia up to US$1 billion for forest-conservation activities aimed at slowing rampant deforestation and resulting greenhouse gas emissions. A recent Presidential Instruction in Indonesia outlines a key deliverable...

The Project Semakau free intertidal walks (sponsored by the HSBC) have benefited more than 800 students from schools across Singapore for the year of 2011. This year, in conjunction with the project’s third year in running, a photo-movie contest was also organized with the aim of crea...

Clean-up at the museum (The Straits Times, 21 December 2011) Posted on 21 December 2011 by dbsnlls Click on image to download pdf. Clean-up at the museum Grace Chua 21st December 2011 The pair of orang utans, one male and one female, had languished in the closet for years – their hide...

On average, one new species of plants and animals was found every two days last year in the Greater Mekong region. The 208 species discovered included a new monkey, a wolf snake and a self-cloning lizard, the World Wide Fund for Nature said this week. A highly threated biodiversity ho...

The Raffles Museum Toddycats has once again set up another exhibition at the Geylang East Public Library on the 10th of December 2011! There turn up was great and there were many children participating in the activities the Toddycats planned of the event.

The resident poster boy, Marcus, is currently researching on the ecology and conservation of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis ) in Singapore. More specifically, he is examining the diet, distribution and population of these nationally endangered cats in the wild.

These older specimens need the care of a skilled conservator in the form of Ms Kate Pocklington ! Kate is from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History , and will be here in RMBR until the end of the month to give the specimens a much needed make-over! Now, what exactly does a ...

Click on image to download pdf. Get ready for Twinky & friends Two of three dinosaur fossils Singapore bought could arrive next year Tan Dawn Wei The Sunday Times December 4, 2011 Singapore’s heftiest immigrants are moving here as early as next year – two years before their new home w...

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Wild – Carnivores at the Library! Review of the Southeast Asian miniature cyprinid genus Sundadanio (Ostariophysi: Cyprinidae) with descriptions of seven new species from Indonesia and Malaysia Rasbora atranus, a new species of fish from central Borneo (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) Systomus...

, new species, is described from the upper Mahakam drainage, central Borneo. It belongs to the R. sumatrana-elegans complex (sensu Brittan, 1954). It is distinguished by having a dark midlateral stripe from the opercle to the caudal-fin base, often faint or poorly contrasted, widened ...

, new species, is described from Belait and Tutong drainages in Brunei. It is distinguished by the adults having a plain brown body with a blackish reticulate pattern; the juveniles with a faint black spot at dorsal-fin origin and a midlateral series of 3 or 4 black blotches on the fl...